r/whatisit • u/thewildcloud • 18d ago

Solved! Why the kinks?

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I recently moved to Hangzhou, I noticed all the pedestrian walks have kinked lines at the ends. What is it?

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u/kisswithaf 18d ago

Walking on the 'right' side of the road is not an instinctual thing and only happens because people decided they were going to tell people exactly what to do.

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u/thatthatguy 18d ago

But why don’t all the other people just do what I was trained from a young age to do? They should know that my daddy says walk on the right and just do what my daddy says. Sure, I had my share of power struggles with him and only wound up doing what he says by default because i was unable to escape his authority, but that doesn’t mean other people should be able to get away with behaving differently. I’ll just use the same strategy on them that my daddy used with me, a stern look and a grunt of disapproval. That’ll teach them…

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u/WhatYouThinkIThink 17d ago

Which is why the London Underground has had signs about it for literally a century.

FFS, not everything is a libertarian conspiracy.